The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ JAMES S. WETHrRED, of san Francisco, owns
snuff box made of the first lot of gold found
Il California in 1873,
\ 'cYcLER who has returned to his home in
Maplewood, Nj after trip through Europe and
Africa his tricycle., says he coved Il, OOO miles
at an expense Of $500.
Az ALsATIAN who tattoOed himself all over
with give Ia France was imprisoned for six
months when be came TO be examined for ad~
mission TO the German army.
A BoorsLAcK from Boston has erected small
stand at Lincoln, and this is the way he an
nOunceS his business: The covering OF your
pedal eXtremties artistically Illuminated"
THE divorce business in Cass county, Indiana,
is looking I'D. One hundred and ffty-three
women nave been freed from the bonds of
matrimony within the last eighteen months.
THE treasurer of q church in Raleigh n. c..
has made his annual report. Two items read
as follows: 'Saary promised 10 the rector; Sl5
per month. Salary paid to the rector, none"
4 MAN who had been hired TO SOW some clover
seed at Edmore Mich went through the mo-
tons, but kept the seed in the bag and then
carried it home and sOwed il upon his own land
THERE is one railroad in Missouri that is not
making money. 1t runs from Kansas City to
Osceola. Last year the receipts were less than
Sl6,jO0 and the expenditures more than $4,000.
TIE great onion district of New York. on the
Waikiki river and its tributaries, generally pro-
duces more than 10000 bushels, but the crop
Will be cut short one-hah this season by the
ravages of the onion fly.
The fishermen of Bergen, Sweden, have just
presented to Mile. Sigrid Arnoldson, the new
swedish singer, as a token of their appreciation
of her art, so foot whale. which they caught
on the coast the day after her first concert She
had to give four concerts in one week n Bergen.
and her success elseWhe is said to have been
very great.
These things ara kept constantly in view, &C
cording to an advertisement, along with the
other curiosities in Cincinnati dime museum:
Attractions which are not only amusing but
instructive as we'll No features of an objection
able or immoral nature. Vulgarity on the stage
is constantly forbidden" And yet people are
said to visit it.
Two Russian young ladies' bearing the name
of Gortchakoff reached on Aug. p the highest
point of Mont Blanc. They made the ascent in
twenty hours, and on their return to ChamOuniX
the two sisters were received with great EN-
thusiasm Among the 1.O32 persons who had
before them assembled Mont Blanc, there was
only one woman a French woman.
LOUISE MICHEL, the famous French Commu-
mist. is said at last to have crossed the bound
a y into insanity, or, at least, into alteration.
Her publishers are refusing to print her books,
her health is broken and she is il is said, likely
t. be left to starye if her pen and tongue fail
her. As rule, except in revolutionary districts,
she is now hooted at and ill-treated it is said,
when she speaks.
THE Rev. Adirondack Murray whose speciality
is fish stories, crossed the line into Canada the
other day and came back crestfallen. OF
the lying capacity of the French Canadian he
says: There is childish enthusiasm about it
that captlvates you. He smiles as he lies. He
lays his hands on his heart; he lifts his eyes up
ward he embellishes his little lie with sanity al
lusions; he lies as if he believed his own lie"
4 FRENCH NEWSPAPER reports that in Subiaco.
near Rome, all the inhabitants are under the
influence of epilepsy or hypnotism The curate
| spends his time III exercising the evil sp rts,
and Cardinal Blanchi has INT the Popes 81 jecial
| benediction-an without avail. A troop of
soldiers who were sent to the village have shown
| symptoms of giving way to the disease, and
| there is supposed to be something in the air
| affecting the nerves.
| THE Oregon Alpine Club has been organized
in Portland 1t is proposed to collect nforma-
| ton regarding the many snow peaks of the re-
| gion for the benefit of the members of the club
| and tourists who may wish either t ascend
| them or pass an outing around their bases and
! thereby be the means of attracting to points of
| interest in the Northwest Among the officers
| of the club will be a historian, who will keep a
record OF all the successful and more interest
| ing ascents.
AT Stockport, Eng, few days ago, a man
named johnson was hauled before magistrate
| on the complaint of a woman. who said that he
| he was her husband who had deserted her and
| his baby twenty-Seve years years before The
| baby-a buXOn laSS-waS in court and after the
| man had admitted the truth of the woman's
story, he was introduced to his daughter The
| man had another wife and large family at
| Stockport. He was sentenced TO pay ten shili.
| ings week to his first wife.
A YOUNG GRAY SQUIRREL found by party of
children at Ivoryton, Conn. was cared for until
[ it had grown up large enough to help itself
| when 1t was set at liberty The children had no
idea it would ever come back, but the same
| night the squirrel came to the window and
| tapped upon the pane. 1t was admitted and
| the next morning whisked away again. 1t has
built two nests, using whichever it chooses in
the nighttime, except when ii rains. Then it
always asks for admission to the house.
The Passion Play at Oberammergau will
not be performed till $780, but during the last
month the villagers have been giving series of
| dramatic representations in their theatre and
| the Prince Regent of Bavaria came from his
hunting lodge in the vicinity to see the perform
ance of Muller's drama. Emperor Otto the
| Great and His House, - in which the part of the
| Emperor was taken by the carver Mayer the
| Christ of the Passion Play" The costumes
| and scenes, all of which were much admired
were made and painted in the village.
BaIGANDs are reported to infest the country
between Bologna and Florence, Italy, to such an
extent that travelling Is dangerous and the peo-
pie are afraid to 90 about, even in daylight I'M
less armed with revolverS daggers and bud
/
| try house with two men servants and three
maids in the carriage with her and an invalid
| daughter, was stopped and deprived of all her
| jewels and valuables, worth $500 while the
| daughter was frightened into commissions.
! AT recent seance in Rochester by medium
| from Brooklyn several written communica-
tions purporUing to come from the spirit world
were handed out from the cabinet Six of the
| notes in which the chirogrlphy seemed to be
| the most diSSimilar were submitted to experts
! in the matter Of handwriting. Both of the ex-
| perts agreed that not more than two persons
wrote the notes, and one OF them was inclined
| to think that all were written by the same hand
/ A pencil drawing, purporting to be portrait
OF Jean lngelow, represented her as a man.
LIEUT.. HovGAARD, the Arctic traveller who
made the northeast passage with Nordenskiold
is already preparing for his expedition to East
| Greenland next summer His ambitious pur-
pose is, it possible, to complete the exploration
OF the northeast coast join his discoveries with
| those of Lockwood, and thus finally determine
| the outlines and extent of the great island He
also hopes to ascertain if there is any truth in
the story told by East coast natives that far
north a strait runs clear across Greenland cut
ting 1t into two islands. II there is any truth in
| this report. the western end of the strait must
! join Melville Bay, whose shore line is very i'm
perfectly known.
THIRTY OR FORTY YEARS AGO the whole coun-
eN